Characterizing the vertical-to-horizontal ratio of ground motion at soft-sediment sites

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2741-2756

  Poggi, Valerio ^a   Edwards, Benjamin ^a   Fäh, Donat ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VELOCITY; DISCRETE FREQUENCIES; FOURIER; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; GROUND MOTIONS; NEW PARAMETERS; PREDICTIVE EQUATIONS; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH; RESONANCE PHENOMENA; RESPONSE SPECTRA; SEISMIC IMPEDANCE; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; STRONG-MOTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE;

GEOPHYSICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRONG MOTION; VELOCITY PROFILE;

JAPAN;

EID: 84870753100     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120039     Document Type: Article

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